Vedanta - You're Your Best Teacher
J KRISHNAMURTI
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What is the real meaning and intention of education? Can your mind, which has been conditioned by society , the culture in which you have lived, be transformed through education so you'll never under any circumstances enter the stream of society? Is it possible to educate you differently?
`Educate' in the real sense of that word; not to transmit from the teachers to the students some information about mathematics or history or geography , but in the very instruction of these subjects to bring about a change in your mind -which means that you have to be extraordinarily critical. You have to learn never to accept anything that you yourself do not see clearly , never to repe at what anoth er has said.I think you should put these ques tions to yourself, not occasionally , but every day . Find out. Listen to everything, to the birds, to that cow calling. Learn about everything in yourself, because if you learn from yourself about yourself, then you will not be a second-hand human being. Find out how to live entirely differently .
That is going to be difficult, for most of us like to find an easy way of living. We like to repeat what other people say , what other people do, because it is the easiest way to live -to conform to the old pattern or to a new pattern.
We have to find out what it means never to conform and what it means to live without fear. This is your life: nobody is going to teach you, no book, no guru. You have to learn from yourself, not from books.
`Educate' in the real sense of that word; not to transmit from the teachers to the students some information about mathematics or history or geography , but in the very instruction of these subjects to bring about a change in your mind -which means that you have to be extraordinarily critical. You have to learn never to accept anything that you yourself do not see clearly , never to repe at what anoth er has said.I think you should put these ques tions to yourself, not occasionally , but every day . Find out. Listen to everything, to the birds, to that cow calling. Learn about everything in yourself, because if you learn from yourself about yourself, then you will not be a second-hand human being. Find out how to live entirely differently .
That is going to be difficult, for most of us like to find an easy way of living. We like to repeat what other people say , what other people do, because it is the easiest way to live -to conform to the old pattern or to a new pattern.
We have to find out what it means never to conform and what it means to live without fear. This is your life: nobody is going to teach you, no book, no guru. You have to learn from yourself, not from books.
